It's not too late after the hearing to contact the committee. Vote comes later.

SB271: Places domestic wells under the authority of the State Engineer. Domestic wells have never been under state water law.
From Legislative Counsel Bureau's Digest: "If the State Engineer
confirms that the average annual replenishment to the groundwater supply
may not be adequate, he my order that withdrawals, including
withdrawals from domestic wells, be restricted to conform to priority
rights." (Note: Domestic wells are exempt from Nevada Water law.) State Engineercan curtail domestic wells to indoor domestic use only and watering pets and livestock. ---no more gardens and trees.

SB272: From the bill "In any basin designated by the State Engineer as a critical management area pursuant to subsection 7 or any basin wherewithdrawals of groundwater consistently exceed the perennial

yield of the basin, the State Engineer may order that withdrawalsfrom a domestic well that was not in existence on or before July 1, 2017, be limited to 0.5 acre-feet of water per year. The provisions

of this subsection do not authorize the State Engineer to limit withdrawals from a domestic well in existence on or before July 1, 2017, which requires repair or replacement.

This bill does not allow the State
Engineer to curtail current domestic wells, but does allow him to
restrict future domestic wells. FIRST THEM...THEN YOU! This is a backdoor attempt to bring domestic wells into Nevada water law.

MESSAGE: (write your own message). Vote NO on SB271 and SB272. Do not give the State Engineer unprecedented authority over domestic wells.

The State Water Engineer does
not now, nor has he ever had authority over domestic water use from
non-artesian wells except for the amount of draught. This bill is yet
another back door attempt to fool others into believing that this power
has always existed and avoid sitting at the table with those who are
actually affected.

The language inserted into SB
275 in 2007 giving domestic wells a priority date was inappropriate as
it attempted to do so retroactively. This has not been challenged in
court yet but it most assuredly will in the future.

Basin 162 is extremely
over-appropriated. In 1970 The State Engineer had issued over 90,000
acre feet of water rights in a basin with a perennial yield of only
12,000 to 20.000 afa. Today that number is around 60,000. The 70's
started a transition from farming to subdividing. Much of the land was
split up and sold by the water rights holders using the loophole for
domestic use.

The vast majority of the senior
irrigation water rights lay banked in Private Utility Corporations. One
of them holds about 20,000 afa showing no beneficial use since 1983.

Every subdivision since 1973 had to be signed off by the State Engineer. Proof
of water rights was required without considering the actual wet water
available. I am not aware of any intention by the State Engineer to stop
this practice. It is quite obvious that this basin will be in a
critical management designation soon if this continues.

Almost all of the water bills
this session regarding domestic wells were crafted here in Pahrump by
the Basin 162 Ground Water Management Plan Advisory Board. I was a
member of that board for 21 months along with 4 majority vote
utility/developer interests who control 71% of the water rights in this
basin. The Division of Water Resources and staff, present at every
meeting, led domestic well owners to believe that they owned junior
appropriated water rights that could be curtailed completely if they
didn't agree to the management plan.

Cutting domestic users to
indoor use only is completely unacceptable and a taking. This is
apartment style living concocted by the water cartel, the very ones that
created the problem. Now that they sold all the lots for quick profit,
these Corporations are attempting to steal the water back and re-sell it
through a pipe.

Domestic use was exempted from
water law for obvious reasons. Under current law every appropriated
water right would have to be curtailed prior to domestic wells being
curtailed. While I don't agree with that approach, I certainly don't
agree with the attempted backdoor theft being offered here. We can do
better than this. Please say no to SB 271.

From Kenny Bent: Regarding SB 271

The State Water Engineer does
not now, nor has he ever had authority over domestic water use from
non-artesian wells except for the amount of draught. This bill is yet
another back door attempt to fool others into believing that this power
has always existed and avoid sitting at the table with those who are
actually affected.

The language inserted into SB
275 in 2007 giving domestic wells a priority date was inappropriate as
it attempted to do so retroactively. This has not been challenged in
court yet but it most assuredly will in the future.

Basin 162 is extremely
over-appropriated. In 1970 The State Engineer had issued over 90,000
acre feet of water rights in a basin with a perennial yield of only
12,000 to 20.000 afa. Today that number is around 60,000. The 70's
started a transition from farming to subdividing. Much of the land was
split up and sold by the water rights holders using the loophole for
domestic use.

The vast majority of the senior
irrigation water rights lay banked in Private Utility Corporations. One
of them holds about 20,000 afa showing no beneficial use since 1983.

Every subdivision since 1973 had to be signed off by the State Engineer. Proof
of water rights was required without considering the actual wet water
available. I am not aware of any intention by the State Engineer to stop
this practice. It is quite obvious that this basin will be in a
critical management designation soon if this continues.

Almost all of the water bills
this session regarding domestic wells were crafted here in Pahrump by
the Basin 162 Ground Water Management Plan Advisory Board. I was a
member of that board for 21 months along with 4 majority vote
utility/developer interests who control 71% of the water rights in this
basin. The Division of Water Resources and staff, present at every
meeting, led domestic well owners to believe that they owned junior
appropriated water rights that could be curtailed completely if they
didn't agree to the management plan.

Cutting domestic users to
indoor use only is completely unacceptable and a taking. This is
apartment style living concocted by the water cartel, the very ones that
created the problem. Now that they sold all the lots for quick profit,
these Corporations are attempting to steal the water back and re-sell it
through a pipe.

Domestic use was exempted from
water law for obvious reasons. Under current law every appropriated
water right would have to be curtailed prior to domestic wells being
curtailed. While I don't agree with that approach, I certainly don't
agree with the attempted backdoor theft being offered here. We can do
better than this. Please say no to SB 271.

It costs money for Janine to be in Carson full time...Rent and gas. Please help!

MESSAGE: Vote Yes on SB86. It
is critical that children need to know how to write in cursive. How
will they be able to sign their name on any important document, for
their driver's license or marriage license? How will they be able to
read a Birthday card from their Grandmother? (or write your own message)

Explanation: This bill requires the teaching of cursive handwriting in the government schools in elementary grades. The
instruction must be designed to ensure that a pupil is able to create
readable documents through legible cursive handwriting by the completion
of the third grade. Common Core "Curriculum" has eliminated cursive
handwriting. "Many
states are returning to a requirement that children learn to write.
Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee
include cursive in their curriculum for the 2015-16 school year. A
Washington state legislator is trying to bring back cursive. One
district in Ohio snuck cursive writing in under the guise of art
curriculum."

(IndependentJournalReview.com, 1-27-16)

"Handwriting engages the brain in
important ways that selecting letters on a keyboard does not. Research
continues to show that the hand-brain relationship is important for
children and adults. The sequential strokes required to form letters and
words activates regions of the brain involved in "thinking, language,
and working memory." "It seems there is something really important about
manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things we see all
the time," according to an Indiana University psychology and
neuroscience researcher. Researchers used MRIs to see that "practice
helps with learning letters and shapes, can improve idea composition and
expression, and may aid fine motor-skill development." (Wall Street
Journal, 10-5-10)

February 12, 2017, In the Year of Our Lord, U.S. Constitution Art. VII

Please forward to friends & family! Thank you for Acknowledgement.

Thanks to Carole Fineberg for alerting us to this bill.

Support SB109:

Prohibits State officer from requiring another person to have a microchip implanted.

HEARING:Monday, 1:30, Rm. 2134 Senate Judiciary

Las Vegas, Rm. 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave.Watch online: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/ Go down to Monday to Sen. Judiciary. The vote will not be until days later so its not to late to contact the committee.

MESSAGE: Vote Yes on SB109. Please prohibit the State and others from requiring me to get a microchip. (Or write your own message).

Explanation: This
bill prohibits an officer or employee of this State or any county,
city, etc or any other person from requiring another person to undergo
the implantation of a microchip or other permanent identification marker
of any kind or nature. This bill also provides that each day or part of
a day during which a violation of such a provision is continued or
repeated constitutes a separate offense.

The animal-microchip study findings were so compelling that one of Mr. Lewan's sources, Dr. Robert Benezra, head of the Cancer Biology Genetics Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was quoted as saying, "There's
no way in the world, having read this information, that I would have
one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family
members."

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